A CONSTRUCTION site worker dumped a 17-year-old girl into the sea when she appeared to be dead after he had injected her with a prohibited drug, the High Court heard yesterday.
The court was told that the body of Lo Mei-ling was washed ashore six days after Leung Tsz-ki had disposed of it and her identity was established by her fingerprints.
Leung, 24, admitted the offence of preventing the burial of a corpse but denied the manslaughter of Lo, a young addict who had separated from her husband.
Leung's application for a discharge on the manslaughter charge was granted by Mr Justice Leong, who held that there was insufficient evidence to establish a prima facie case against Leung on that charge.
He agreed with defence counsel Paul Dinan that since there was no evidence as to the cause of Lo's death, there was no link between the unlawful act of Leung and her death.
He deferred sentencing the defendant on the preventing burial charge until February 14, when his younger brother, Leung Tsz-fung, 21, is to appear before the court and will be asked to plead on a joint charge of preventing a burial.
Leung Tsz-fung, also a construction site worker, is being treated in hospital for a bacterial infection and may not be moved until his condition stabilises.
